Film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's will premiere on Disney+ this summer
, who won a Tony for portraying Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's show.
"It seems like it’s going to make a lot of people very happy," Diggs tells EW. "I’m terrified. I’ve never seen myself do that and it’s still the thing that most people talk to me about that I have done. One of the only reasons I can stand that kind of attention is that I haven’t seen it.
. Set more than seven years after an attempt to reverse climate change resulted in a cataclysmic global freeze, the series takes place almost entirely on a huge continents-traversing train called Snowpiercer. In the vehicle’s 1,001 cars, a tiny slice of the world’s population, rigidly split into different classes, survives the existential threat posed by the subzero conditions outside.
“The classes are stacked in this very neat fashion,” says Diggs. “Wealth in the front, poverty in the back. Layton is a resident of the tail, which is the lowest class all the way at the back of the train. They’re not privy to most of the social services of the train. But they live in exchange for work. He's struggling back there with everybody but he becomes useful for people uptrain. In his past he was a detective, so that becomes something that allows him to travel a little bit more.
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